Akshan vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Akshan
based on 1,074 Akshan vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Akshan
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Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Akshan vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Akshan versus Nilah matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences between these two champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Nilah..
Akshan often has a similar longest kill spree as their foe does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Nilah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akshan and Nilah
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Who is Better, Akshan or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Nilah, with a 46.6% win rate. As a result, Akshan makes a poor counter to Nilah.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Nilah, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Nilah.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a garbage counter to Nilah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nilah. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Akshan versus Nilah build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three items in their build, they performed much better when fighting Nilah than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 46.6% when playing against Nilah with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Nilah as Akshan, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Akshan vs Nilah matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
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